Three in one day ... you are lucky. Only becuse I know you will not sleep without an explainatino for the sudden maddness back there in the last two chaps. So here ya go ... clean up aisle three xxxx
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Ianto walked for a while considering his options and then he knew there was only one, heading back to find Jack.
"Hey" Jack smiled as he watched Ianto enter and then his smile faded as he saw something was wrong. "What is it?"
"Bathroom"
They entered and Ianto pulled the door shut leaning against it to look at Jack with a grimace, then he pulled out the Webley.
"Shit!" Jack snatched it, "Careful love, it doesn't have a safety ya know."
"Jack, hold on" Ianto then started the water in the bath, the sink, the shower….Jack's face changed as he saw classic ghosting. Ianto turned to face him and sighed, "Right. I love you. Not, a soft and dreamy love but the kind where I want to fuck you against the nearest wall and fucking bite your lips off your face kind of love."
Jack grinned, then sobered "But?"
"I am … was Agency" Ianto said, waiting for the explosion but Jack just blinked.
"Well, I figured since you knew Tosh, right? She's Agency." He finally said. Ianto's turn to blink, then snigger as he nodded, not willing to give her away with his voice and then he looked down.
"I have just formally retired. My last job was handed to someone else when I flew to you. Its gone tits up and I just had to do some clean-up but Yvonne has released me. The thing is, this means my debts are paid. Me and Lisa signed up for a retirement package and I do not need your money anymore" Ianto explained and Jack paled, leaning back against the wall as he heard his contract with Ianto going up in flames. "Now we can be together for love, not money."
Jack stalled.
"Now you need never think I am playing you or trying to rip you off. Now you know. It was never about the money. I was meeting you to please Owen and intended saying no if we didn't spark but when you walked in I…wow. I wanted you" Ianto shrugged and Jack erupted from the wall to seize Ianto and kiss him passionately, his emotions conflicting as he wanted to slap him, fuck him and shake the shit out of him.
"No more lies?" Jack asked.
"Well … Lisa and I were not chaste or exclusive. I never said but I have been as excitable as you looking for love and then realised it was not about physical need. Of all my sexual partners…you were my first lover." Ianto blushed, "I really wanted my first to be a bond-mate and as much as I loved Lisa we both knew it was a partnership through the agency. You are my first true mate. All my previous bed partners are dust in the wind, as are yours. I come to you open and honest. You are the first I joined minds with."
Jack knew they had matched one another physially so he focused on what needed to be ironed out between them "When you said you could handle yourself … a field agent?"
"Bodyguard slash rabbiter"
Jack snorted and then doubled as he laughed.
"Sorry for all the bullshit but I needed this to be us and I knew the moment I realised I was falling for you that if I was still agency you were not safe. That first tabloid photo was my retirement notice and if I didn't get things settled I might be expendable." Ianto knew Jack understood as he turned to look towards the other room and the children in there, "Exactly. I have done my job and she is satisfied. Today was my last active duty. I am all yours sir."
"Yvonne" Jack said softly, "She is a bitch to deal with, how ironic. She must hate that I have you, one of her minions."
"Oh no" Ianto smiled softly without taking insult, "I was never one of those. I am one of her elite ghosts."
"Really?" Jack leaned back and grinned, "By Pete, I did catch me a live one. Wow. That's why you were not scared of Gwen. Huh. You would not only die for our children, you would kill for them."
"And make it look like an accident" Ianto grinned, "Also worked as a cleaner crew supervisor for a while."
Jack laughed, "I worked illegal immigrants."
"I know" Ianto snorted, "I saw you and your team swanking about, me in the shadows doing my wraithing thing."
"Why you said you could run and I would ever find you. Pete sake, you have bolt holes and escape avenues set up right?" Jack suddenly saw another bonus, "If Gwen ever tried to come after us…"
"Hit-and-run Jones, you have heard of me." Ianto nodded, "I can kill, reset the scene and make sure we are not in the area when the bodies are found."
Jack snorted, "Why you stood up to me over Alice even though I was acting like a Neanderthal. You could have taken me, so out of control of the situation. Only you make me lose my perspective ya know."
"I love you" Ianto said again, "I choose to give you my everything, including my true self. Code name The Wolf. My Captain."
Jack sighed, "You used my name before and it didn't register. You know my code name. You read up on me? When?"
"When Owen first gave me your file and I saw your smile, her smile" Ianto grinned, "I looked at your secure file, saw how evenly matched we are in so many ways and was curious. Then you walked in with that energy and golden glow to you that …"
"Empathic!" Jack spluttered as the earlier comment registered, "Oh for the love of Pete. Two empaths of course we slammed together, thank Pete we were not the same polarity that repels."
"Why I had to see you to know for sure" Ianto sighed as he moved in to rub against his husband, "Captain I love you, this Wolf is lone no longer."
"Wow" Jack whispered, "Sounds like a book title, "The Captain and the Wolf."
"Let's hope there are many chapters"
"Yeah."